84 Annals of the South African Museum. 



African lithic industry, which, with the exclusion of the palseoliths, 

 is so plainly of a Mousterian type has nevertheless what may be 

 termed an African facies,''' 



I have alluded in Chapter VI. to scraper-knives found together 

 with bouchers in such a position that doubt as to the two being 

 coeval is well-nigh impossible, and on the evidence of the bouchers 

 these scrapers must be considered as being also Chelleo-Mousterian, 

 that is to say, representing this type of culture. 



But on the surface, where no indication as to the age or date of 

 deposition is obtainable, we find, seldom isolated, and often with 

 remnants of cores or small spalls showing that they have been 

 fabricated on the spot, scrapers, the technique of which is, I think, 

 well illustrated by the plates accompanying or rather supplementing 

 this paper. 



It is not only on the surface that these remnants, or effective 

 implements, are met with. They are found in kitchen-middens, in 

 rock-shelters, and in caves. 



For several reasons, such as difference in the shape and material 

 of which they are made, or in technique, they may be divided into 

 sub-types, which do, however, occasionally commingle and which I 

 term the " Littoral " and " Inland Districts " respectively. 



Littoral Type. — In the Cape Peninsula there are many small 

 depressions which contain fresh water at certain times ; round these 

 vleis one is sure to find implements, mostly small, like those of Figs. 

 118 and 120. Occasionally examples of the best Solutrian type 

 met with in this country are also discovered. The lance-heads of 

 Fig. 110 show on the obverse and reverse a secondary chipping so 

 carefully done, an advance so great in the process of hafting, that it 

 becomes doubtful if the technique is not one that is altogether 

 foreign to that of the aborigines. 



Have we here, then, a corroboration of the famous, yet contro- 

 versial, Egyptian Periplus '? Have these splendid points which so 

 very greatly resemble the best specimens from the Fayoum been 

 made on the spot by mariners wrecked or temporarily stranded, 

 or by adventurers seeking pastures new ? 



Eare indeed are these entire specimens, nor are the fragments 

 numerous which show so well that when used as lance-head the 

 local material broke easily at the edge of the hafted part, a fracture 

 due perhaps to the thick hide of the Hippopotamus, Ehinoceros, and 

 Elephant, the remains of which are not uncommon in the parts 



* Cf. Foureau, Mission Sahiirienne, Paris, 1905. Zeltner, " Note sur le Prehis- 

 torique Soudanais," L'Anthropologie, 1907. 



